11 Articles

Friday, October 9, 2009
On Pelosi Power: Public Option Still Viable
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's record of passing all the bills she has brought forward – despite opponents' caricature of her as inept—mean that the health public option remains viable in the House and the House-Senate conference, say ex-White House staffer and former House Aging Committee and Health Subcommittee Chief of Staff Robert Weiner and Rebecca Vander Linde.

Sunday, August 23, 2009
NATIONWIDE TUITION FREEZE COULD RESTORE U.S. TO #1
"We were number one in 1992. Now the United States ranks fourth in the world for college completion, with only 39 percent of Americans holding degrees, and a shocking 11th in the world for recent graduates 25-34,"- say former Clinton White House and congressional senior staff member Bob Weiner and Policy Analyst Zoe Pagonis. "Other nations are rapidly passing us by because our students can't afford college."-

Thursday, August 13, 2009
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE STIFFENING HEALTH CARE OPPOSITION: FOLLOW THE MONEY
(6 comments) "The opposition to health reform is a web of vested interests with major financial stakes in the status quo,"- say former Chief of Staff to the House Aging Committee/former White House Drug Policy spokesman Bob Weiner and Analyst Jordan Osserman in a column in today's South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "30 key lawmakers involved in health legislation total $11 million personal investments in the healthcare sector."

Saturday, August 8, 2009
The Prognosis for Health Reform
(7 comments) Ex-House Aging Committee Chief of Staff Bob Weiner warns of insurance control over health bill outcome, praises House Version, “Disappointed” by Senate; Weiner and Policy Analyst Jordan Osserman offer bill’s “Prognosis”

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
RENTERS ACROSS AMERICA NEED MORE HELP FROM CONGRESS
(7 comments) While the new federal anti-foreclosure bill signed by President Obama helps homeowners affected by the economic crisis, the bill and its $13.6 billion housing recovery money ignore the one-third of American households who rent, say former Mayor of New York and Congressman Ed Koch and ex-White House spokesman Bob Weiner, former Chief of Staff of the House Aging Committee and Koch's former legislative aide in the NY Daily News.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
NASA's Weak Dream
As the July 20 40th anniversary of man's first moon landing approaches, former White House Spokesman Bob Weiner and Policy Analyst Zoe Pagonis urge NASA, "Focus on the dream of traveling to other planets and reverse NASA's satisfaction with the mundane." In an op-ed in today's Orlando Sentinel, Weiner and Pagonis assert, "The news for NASA now is a pale comparison to 1969, when two Americans first stepped on the moon."

Friday, March 13, 2009
BANKING: STOP FLOW OF FUNDS THAT UNDERWRITE TERRORISM
President Obama's promised Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy to be delivered to the April 3-4 NATO summit should track the dirty money, both from drug production and from neighboring countries, say former White House drug policy spokesman Robert Weiner and former CIA intelligence analyst Paulette Garthoff. They urge, "Follow the Money."

Monday, November 17, 2008
Six-Point Plan to Restore Respect to Congress From Dismal 12-23% Approval, Lower Than Bush
(7 comments) Six-Point Plan to Restore Respect to Congress From Dismal 12-23% Approval, Lower Than Bush (as printed in Roll Call)

Monday, August 4, 2008
McCAIN MAVERICK NO MORE
End Widespread Myth, including by McCain, that Social Security is Faltering, But Fix Medicare Urges Ex-Hill Committee on Aging Chief/National Democratic Strategist Robert Weiner and Former Senior Hill Aide John Larmett in Palm Beach Post Op-Ed

Saturday, April 19, 2008
REDUCED FUNDS FOR CANCER IS COST OF IRAQ
REDUCED FUNDS FOR CANCER IS COST OF IRAQ, SAY EX WHITE HOUSE AIDE, CANCER RESEARCHERS – An ex-White House aide, Robert Weiner, and Dr. Patricia Berg, director of a GWU Medical Center breast cancer lab, are reporting that many scientists believe that "the cost of the Iraq war is largely responsible for a drop in real dollars for cancer research, and private organizations, though critical, are a pale substitute for the power of

Monday, April 7, 2008
RELOCATE OLYMPIC GAMES, DON'T BOYCOTT
(6 comments) RELOCATE OLYMPIC GAMES, DON'T BOYCOTT-- MESSAGE TO CHINA THAT TIBET MURDERS UNACCEPTABLE, BUT WORLD'S ATHLETES MUST NOT PAY By Robert Weiner and John Larmett